ACT UP and NIAID Meeting About Natural History Study of Women with HIV (Tape 2)

AIDS (Disease); AIDS (Disease)--Political aspects--United States; ACT UP (Organization); New York (State)--New York; United States; AIDS (Disease)--History; AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects--United States; Clinical trials--Reporting; Clinical drug trials; Drugs--Testing; Clinical trials of drugs; Drug bioscreening ; Drug trials ; Drugs--Clinical trials; Drugs--Effectiveness--Testing; Drugs--Evaluation; AIDS (Disease) in women

Meeting between NIAID employee Diane Hartnell and ACT UP, Women with HIV/AIDS, and AIDS activists in Bethesda, Maryland regarding research, including the ACTG, women's natural history, sexual health, pregnancy, and questionnaires.

Meeting between ACT UP and Women with HIV/AIDS and AIDS activists Seh Welch, Mary Lucy, Maxine Wolfe, and Marina Alvarez and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) employee Diane Hartnell in Bethesda, Maryland. Hartnell, who began at the NIAID as Sten Vermund's assistant, discusses research and resources (like the ODB database) for health information regarding HIV/AIDS infected women, in addition to other issues involving women's health. Welch, Lucy, Alvarez, and Wolfe raise concerns about the research questionnaires and practices, especially questions about pregnancy, the ACTG, women's natural history, sexual health, drug users, and the MACS study.

Donated by Maxine Wolfe on 1993-07-27

1991-12-06

Digitized on 2015-09-24 and 2015-10-22

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English

SPW1591

Audio cassette

00:46:09

See SPW 1590 and 1592 (parts one and three). Strange background noise for most of tape but can still hear. Note is enclosed in donors binder and typed in·note for SPW 1590. Tape switches from this meeting to a different one with a slide show halfway through Side 2.
Recorded Persons: Seh Welch, Mary Lucy, Maxine Wolfe, Diane Hartell, Marina Alvarez
Persons Mentioned: Mary Jean Creek